The great(est) ocean conveyor belt brief description what creates the gulf stream?

We depart from a very nice and warm area: the Caribbean. The water is very ______ there and very ______ because the weather is hot and it doesn't rain often. Therefore, a great quantity of water evaporates and the salt concentrates more and more in the water which is left.

Pushed by the winds, these great masses of warm and salty water become a current which flows in the direction of the ­­­­­__________: the Gulf Stream. It is a ___________, even if the water is very salty, because the warm water is not as heavy as the cold waters surrounding it.

The Gulf Stream flows at a speed of 3 to 8 km / hour. o­n its way, it warms up the climate of England and of all the countries o­n the western coast of _____________: thanks to him, we have milder winters than Canada: Quebec is at the same latitude than Nantes (France) and it gets 4 months of snow per year for o­nly a few days of snow in Nantes.

Once they arrive in the North Atlantic, the warm waters of the Gulf Stream begin to ____________. And for similar temperatures, this water that is saltier than the surrounding (and therefore denser)... they are going to sink straight to the bottom!

WATER THAT SINKS STRAIGHT TO THE BOTTOM !

It is off the coast of ________ (more precisely, in the Norway Sea, the Labrador Sea and the Groenland Sea) that this water sinks and becomes a deep current, called the ___________________. This phenomenon is o­ne of the motors of the actual oceanic circulation. The ___________ is the o­nly place in the whole world which offers all the necessary conditions for this phenomenon to happen.

The North Atlantic is a key area for the actual oceanic circulation and many scientific people are afraid that the ______________ might destabilise the fragile equilibrium, which allows this phenomenon to happen. If any modification of the oceanic currents should happen in this area, it would mean important changes of the climate of all the European countries!

The cold and deep current which is created off Norway flows back in the direction of the South, through all the Atlantic, towards Antarctica, where it feeds the ___________________.

The Circumpolar Current flows all around the earth, near Antarctica, and is the most powerful of the globe! The father of "Nemo", the hero of Walt Disney's cartoon, swims into this incredible current with a Green Turtle that has an Australian accent: it is a deep current which flows all around Antarctica, with 180 million cubic meter of water per second, from the West towards the East ! This part of the Circumpolar Current was called the __________________ .

The Circumpolar Current then distributes cool water in all the oceans of the world, amongst which the Atlantic Ocean, ____________________ and eventually the Caribbean.